When a post to a website gets popular but the website doesn’t have enough resources to handle the number of people visiting it.
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hector@lemmy.today 1 week agoWhat is the reddit hug of death? I noticed reddit drains my battery like several times quicker than lemmy, and it gets wonky, crashes sometimes.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
netweirdo@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The Reddit hug of death is when someone posts a link in a big community and thousands of people visit it, generating so much traffic at once that, while legitimate, ends up having the same effect as an actual attack does of overloading a website and causing it to become unavailable. Has nothing to do with the Reddit app being hot garbage.